"I disagree. I went to a thoroughly secular high school and one of the readings in my Humanities course was the Book of Job. We also read Karl Marx and selections from the Koran too. It was part of a fully rounded education and I remember it fondly. I wouldn't want my child to go a school which shied away from religion or other controversial ideas. If a child doesn't learn the important role which religon has played in history, philosophy, and government, he will have inferior education no matter how high he scores on tests."
Time enough and time for all that in college, when minds are mature enough to handle it. Far more important to teach kids how to read and write, do calc and trig, and learn their physics first. My opinion.
Well...of course....I am assuming that kids already know how to read and write by high school. Unfortunately, that is usually a false assumption in 2004.